Air return to play Moon Safari in Dublin at Fairview Park this summer
French band return for a reprise of last year’s performance of seminal chill electronic album Moon Safari at Trinity College , this time in a tent.
Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel’s debut album permeated pop culture at the time of release in 1998 drawing from its kitsch korgs, dreamy lounge sounds, chillout vibes, vocodered vocals and nostalgic electronic pop.
AIR have announced a summer show to take place under canvas at Fairview Park, Dublin on 17th June 2025
Tickets €69.90 plus fees go on sale this Friday at 9am via Ticketmaster.ie.
Moon Safari includes the singles ‘Kelly Watch The Stars’, ‘All I Need’ and ‘Sexy Boy’ and the opening song ‘La Femme D’Argent’.
Air – Moon Safari Tickets 2025 – Dublin gig information
- Artist: Air
- Venue: Fairview Park (in a tent)
- City/town: Dublin
- Date: Tuesday June 17th 2025
- Ticket info: Tickets €69.90 plus fees go on sale this Friday at 9am via Ticketmaster.ie.
More about Moon Safari
Celebrating its 25th anniversary last year, the release of Moon Safari catapulted Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel to the uppermost rung of electronic music’s ladder and left an indelible imprint on pop culture at the end of the 20th Century.
Despite being young 20-somethings at the time and having only released one EP to date, Godin and Dunckel’s stars aligned and together they were blessed with the creative skill to make the perfect electronic pop songs. These two students of astrophysics and architecture set about creating their own universe with the confidence and pedigree of seasoned pros.
Today, the record’s legacy is canonical, but at the time of release, its multi-million success was far from assured. Says Dunckel: “We were a duo doing some electronic thing, dreaming of selling 10,000 copies and being recognised by other musicians as cool. Then suddenly, we met the world.” In no time at all, AIR’s downtempo influence was easy to detect all around.
Through Moon Safari, Air’s music infiltrated and transfixed some of the great visionaries of the late 20th century – David Bowie, Madonna, Beck – as well as influencing preeminent aesthetes of the incoming age – including Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kevin Parker and Sofia Coppola, whose creative relationship with Air became as synergetic as that of Angelo Badalamenti and David Lynch (another fan).
Dunckel sums up his own album as “a deep, universal spell, full of love and mystery.”
“To me,” Godin concludes, “Moon Safari is perfect.” And who can argue…
